No loo paper on the click and collect menu this week. 'The Font' will try at the little local supermarket tomorrow morning. Angus had a grandmother who was a living embodiment of Presbyterian thriftiness and who never bought loo paper in her life . She used to cut up the previous days Glasgow Herald into small squares that were then strung together and positioned in each of the lavatories. 'The Font' considers this family tradition of recycling to be an outlandish sign of social deprivation. This may have something to do with Swedish Lutheran ideas of cleanliness and printing ink. The old lady lived to an active 104 so newspaper ink can't be deemed to be toxic.
More cars around . Five pass us as we head off on our morning walk. Madame Bay tootles by in her increasingly battered Wild Child voiturette. She leans out of the window to tell me that she had two glasses of brandy when she heard the President tell the nation to stay in lockdown until May 11th. ' Two large glasses M'Ongoose ! Two large glasses !' She repeats this in case I didn't get it the first time.
Blowy today. A front bounding in off the Atlantic. Sophie's ears fly. The donkeys are too far away to pay us much attention but the youngest one looks up inquisitively as we pass. Sophie is in no rush to say hello to them or indeed acknowledge their presence. This is her village .
In the local paper a story about a young woman who was chased by wild boar on her morning walk. She didn't seek help because she wasn't carrying her certificate d'attestation
Elected the most beautiful building in the world 2020. Would you want one of these balconies ? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0e7N10FQik
A touch of Scotland in Maryland : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcBprQh5xao
9 comments:
Two large glasses of brandy could be considered quite moderate in the circumstances.
At least you now have some chocolate.
(At the start of our lockdown and the height of our toilet paper panic a neighbour commented to me that we'll all have to start buying newspapers again!)
Cheers, Gail.
The most beautiful building in the world is definitely 'in the eye of the beholder'. Love the pipes, but unsure of the man in suit, reading.... (It wasn't all that long ago here in Oz that newspaper and magazines eventually found their way into the dunnies for their last hurrah.
Hari Om
Yup, I reminded folk round here about recycled paper...
..."most beautiful"... IN THE WORLD??!!! I need to talk to that judging panel.
Grand tune that - and played very nicely. YAM xx
Maybe one has to be inside the most beautiful building to appreciate it?
Well, those balconies wouldn't allow for the current social distancing! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, true, but was the judging panel blindfold when they cast their votes? Was it something akin to a game of pinning the tail on the donkey? Stab with a pin and hope for the best!
For the first time since before lockdown I went out to take Inca to the vet for an essential vaccine. On the way home we called in at our local Lidl. I had to smile as I negotiated stacks of loo paper, boxes of tissues, and kitchen roll - all piled high in the aisles.
Sophie looks a little windswept today, and I see that we have the same frisky breeze here.
I'd expect Chartreuse flavoured chocolate from a chocolatier in Voiron! Or is that the missing half of the order?
Have they "named" that building The Porcupine yet?
Newspaper ink these days tends to be soy-based, whereas in the past it was petroleum-based (and toxic). So you'd be better off using it now. But you can't flush it. Maybe your grandmother had an outhouse? For more on toilet paper's short history, check out this podcast (99% Invisible is all about design, and every episode is a revelation): https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/wipe-out/
I made a concerted effort to find the Tree House on my last trip to Montpellier, in February. But traffic was crazy and I gave up. I would move there in a minute (location! views! balconies!). Most beautiful building in the world? Not by a long shot.
Nice that at least some of the chocolate showed up!
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